Sunday, October 3, 2010

The 10 Commandments of Writing Fiction

  1. Sit Your Ass in the Chair
  2. Thou Shalt Not Bore the Reader
  3. Remember to Keep Holy Your Writing Time
  4. Honor the Lives of Your Characters
  5. Thou Shalt Not Be Obscure
  6. Thou Shalt Show and Not Tell
  7. Thou Shalt Steal
  8. Thou Shalt Rewrite and Rewrite again. And Again.
  9. Thou Shalt confront the Human Condition
  10. Be Sure That Every Death in a Story Means Something
- From "The Lie That Tells A Truth" by John Dufresne

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